Maritime Commerce
3 postsEntrance to the Port of Marseille
Painting (oil on canvas) · Claude-Joseph Vernet
Painted in 1754, Claude-Joseph Vernet's L'entrée du port de Marseille is one of the canonical works of the Ports of France series, fifteen large paintings commissioned by Louis XV's Marquis de Marigny
Cantino Planisphere
Map (parchment, Portuguese cartography) · Anonymous (Portuguese cartographer, 1502)
The Cantino Planisphere, dated 1502, is the earliest surviving map to show the discoveries of the Portuguese voyages of the 1490s and early 1500s. The map depicts the coastlines of Africa around the C
The Geographer
Painting (oil on canvas) · Johannes Vermeer
Vermeer painted only about thirty-five works in his entire career. Two of them, painted around 1668 and 1669, depict male scholars: The Astronomer (now at the Louvre) and The Geographer (now at the St
